Gobies, Gobiidae, Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands Gobies (Gobiidae)

The family Gobiidae contains many species of usually small fish, often living on or very near the bottom. Many live in burrows in the sand, some of them in burrows built and maintained by symbiotic Alpheid "bulldozer" shrimp. Goby species that are always found with bulldozer shrimp are covered on a different page at Kwajalein Shrimp Gobies. The current page covers species that do not typically have shrimp partners. There are many goby species in the Marshalls for which we do not have photos; they are not covered on these pages. Also, many of these are not easy to identify, especially just from a photograph, so some of the names may need correction.

Amblygobius decussatus	Amblygobius nocturnus	Amblygobius phalaena
Amblygobius phalaena	Asterropteryx ovata	Asterropteryx semipunctata
Asterropteryx striata	Asterropteryx sp. 2	Bathygobius sp. 1
Bryaninops cf amplus	Bryaninops erythrops	Bryaninops loki
Bryaninops natans	Bryaninops ridens	Bryaninops yongei
Bryaninops sp. 1	Bryaninops sp. 2	Cabillus lacertops
Cabillus tongarevae	Callogobius hasseltii	Callogobius maculipinnis
Callogobius sp. 1	Echinogobius hayashii	Eviota albolineata
Eviota cf albolineata	Eviota cometa	Eviota cf maculosa
Eviota nebulosa	Eviota oculineata	Eviota prasites
Eviota sebreei	Eviota cf specca	Eviota sigillata
Eviota? sp. 1	Eviota? sp. 2	Eviota sp. 4
Eviota sp. 5	Eviota sp. 8	Eviota sp. 9
Exyrias akihito	Exyrias belissimus	Fusigobius aureus
Fusigobius duospilus	Fusigobius gracilis	Fusigobius humeralis
Fusigobius maximus	Fusigobius neophytus	Fusigobius signipinnis
Fusigobius sp. 3	Fusigobius sp. 4	Fusigobius sp. 5
Fusigobius sp. 6	Fusigobius sp. 7	Fusigobius sp. 8
Fusigobius? sp. 10	Gnatholepis anjerensis	Gnatholepis cauerensis
Gobiodon aoyagii	Gobiodon atrangulatus	Gobiodon citrinus
Gobiodon erythrospilus	Gobiodon okinawae	Gobiodon quinquestrigatus
Gobiodon prolixus	Gobiodon rivulatus	Gobiodon? sp. 1
Hazeus nephodes	Hazeus sp. 1	Hazeus? sp. 2
Istigobius ornatus	Istigobius rigilius	Istigobius cf rigilius
Koumansetta rainfordi	Macrodontogobius wilburi	Minysicya caudimaculata
Oplopomops diacanthus	Oplopomus oplopomus	Paragobiodon echinocephalus
Paragobiodon kasaii	Paragobiodon lacunicola	Paragobiodon melanosoma
Paragobiodon cf modestus	Pleurosicya boldinghi	Pleurosicya coerulea
Pleurosicya elongata	Pleurosicya fringilla	Pleurosicya micheli
Pleurosicya cf mossambica	Pleurosicya muscarum	Pleurosicya sp. 1
Pleurosicya sp. 1	Pleurosicya sp. 2	Pleurosicya sp. 4
Priolepis inhaca	Priolepis semidoliata	Sueviota lachneri
Trimma anthrenum	Trimma benjamini	Trimma caesiura
Trimma cana	Trimma fasciatum	Trimma flavatrum
Trimma hayashii	Trimma hoesei	Trimma maiandros
Trimma milta	Trimma nasa	Trimma okinawae
Trimma taylori	Trimma tevegae	Trimma sp. 1
Trimma sp. 2	Trimma sp. 3	Trimmatom sp. 1
Valenciennea parva	Valenciennea parva	Valenciennea puellaris
Valenciennea sexguttata	Valenciennea strigata	goby sp. 1
Gobiidae sp. 3